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same chalcid was bred from Ichneumons within lepidopterons 

 pupae it would seem to show that the insect is a primary and 

 secondary parasite at the same time and that we are gradually 

 being forced to abandon the old idea of a parasitic insect being 

 either exclusively primary or exclusively secondary. 



Mr. Kotinsky recorded an addition to the Hawaiian insect 

 fauna by the permanent establishment of EucoUa impatiens 

 Say on the Islands, Mr. Jordan and he having collected four 

 specimens that morning at Palolo. Mr. Swezey added that he 

 had collected a specimen of the same species in town on the 

 29th of the previous month. 



PAPERS READ. 



A Note on the Introduction of Culex fatig-ans into the 

 Hawaiian Islands. [Diptera] 



BY G. W. KIRKALDY. 



In 1861 Osten Sacken gave 1828-30 as the date of the sup- 

 posed introduction of mosquitoes into these Islands,* while 

 lately Van Dine referred it back to 1826 **. 



According to Fornander (***) S. M. Kamakau (one of the 

 older Hawaiian historians) "states that fleas and mosquitoes 

 were unknown in the Hawaiian group until the arrival of 

 Cook's ships," implying that they were introduced then ; so 

 that if this is correct these pests arrived hereabout 1778-9 in- 

 stead of 1826-30. 



Odynerus Parasites [Hymen.] 



BY OTTO H. SWEZEY. 



(i) Melittohia haimiiensis Perkins. 



A large number of this parasite was reared from material 

 handed me by Mr. W. M. Giffard, collected by him in Moana- 



* "Einfiihrung von Mucken auf der Sandwich— Inseln," 1861 Stettin. 

 Ent. Zeit., XXII, 51-2; see also the same author, "Pacts concerning the 

 importation or non-importation of Diptera into distant countries," 1884, 

 T. E. S. London 494. 



* * "Mosquitoes in Hawaii," 1904, Bull. Hawaii CU. S.) Agr. Sta. 6 p. 

 1-30. 



* * * "An account of the Polynesian Race," II. 199. 



